Now, as the camera moves slowly Citizen Kane can be approached in several ways: as a film, as an event, as a topic of the times, etc.

As Robert Carringer writes in The Making of Citizen Kane, Welles ruthlessly parodied Hearst’s materialistic life at his Castle, which in its time was the Mar-a-Lago of the West Coast.

Citizen Kane, widely considered the greatest film ever made, continues to fascinate critics and historians as well as filmgoers. All around this is an almost totally black screen.

The Making of Citizen Kane, Revised edition: Robert L. Carringer: 9780520205673: Books - Amazon.ca With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead. If you're looking for a glossy account of the making of "Citizen Kane" with lots of pictures, backstage anecdotes, gossip, this book probably isn't what you're looking for. Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film by Orson Welles, its producer, co-screenwriter, director and star.The picture was Welles's first feature film.Nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories, it won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles. Citizen Kane is an encyclopedia of techniques: a 114-minute film school which provides lesson after lesson in deep focus and rear projection, extreme close …

The Making of Citizen Kane, copiously illustrated with rare photographs and production documents, also provides an in-depth view of the operations of the Hollywood studio system.

With Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich.

CITIZEN KANE by Herman J. Mankiewicz & Orson Welles PROLOGUE FADE IN: EXT. Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane (1941), despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.

Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; 'Rosebud'. Long before Orson Welles' Citizen Kane was released in 1941, there was a buzz about the movie and the "boy genius" who made it. Citizen Kane is an encyclopedia of techniques: a 114-minute film school which provides lesson after lesson in deep focus and rear projection, extreme close …

The Making of Citizen Kane, copiously illustrated with rare photographs and production documents, also provides an in-depth view of the operations of the Hollywood studio system.

Directed by Benjamin Ross. Directed by Orson Welles. Long before Orson Welles' Citizen Kane was released in 1941, there was a buzz about the movie and the "boy genius" who made it. It's a fairly serious study of what many people consider to be the best movie ever made. But a mystery still lies at the heart of this masterpiece. Citizen Kane, widely considered the greatest film ever made, continues to fascinate critics and historians as well as filmgoers.While credit for its genius has traditionally been attributed solely to its director, Orson Welles, Carringer's pioneering study documents the shared creative achievements of Welles and his principal collaborators.

While credit for its genius has traditionally been attributed solely to its director, Orson Welles, Carringer's pioneering study documents the shared creative achievements of Welles and his principal collaborators. Citizen Kane has long been acclaimed as a work of genius and endlessly dissected by critics. The Making of Citizen Kane, copiously illustrated with rare photographs and production documents, also provides an in-depth view of the operations of the Hollywood studio system. XANADU - FAINT DAWN - 1940 (MINIATURE) Window, very small in the distance, illuminated.